[Peace-discuss] Violence Has No Place in a Democracy (but US Mideast war doesn't count)

[C. G. Estabrook]

Violence Has No Place in a Democracy
By Kevin Gosztola

...It is easy to characterize Loughner as unstable and irrational. It is less 
easy to entirely dismiss Joseph Stack, who flew an airplane into an IRS building 
in Texas in 2010.

Appearing on Democracy Now! in May of 2010, MIT professor Noam Chomsky explained:

"Stack decided then that he couldn't trust big business and would strike out on 
his own, only to discover that he couldn't trust a government that cared nothing 
about people like him, but only about the rich and privileged. And he couldn't 
trust a legal system, which--in his words, in which "there are two 
'interpretations' for every law, one for the very rich and one for the rest of 
us," a government that leaves us with "the joke we call the American medical 
system, including the drug and insurance companies [that] are murdering tens of 
thousands of people a year," with care rationed by wealth, not need, all in a 
social order in which "a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable 
atrocities...and when it's time for their gravy train to crash under the weight 
of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal 
government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours."

>From 
<http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Shooting-of-Congresswoman-by-Kevin-Gosztola-110109-379.html>.